The Leo release says "this is one of the best of Mr. Braxton's performances ever both in terms of music and quality of recording. If it doesn't become an...
So I put my pre-order in... musta been like 10 or 15 years ago when I wrote Mr Cuscuna about doing this box... When is it going to ship, anybody know? --Frank...
Hi all, With the upcoming release of Mosaic's "Complete Arista Recordings" box, I thought it might be useful to republish those LPs' original liner notes ...
A short review of the Mosaic box in the New Yorker: http://tinyurl.com/FuttermanNewYorker -- Jason Guthartz jguthartz@... [Non-text portions of this...
I recently came across a Braxton LP that I had never seen before. It's Italian, possibly an unauthorised release. As far as I can tell it's not listed in...
from the latest VERGE e-mail newsletter: Braxton, Anthony & the AIMToronto Orchestra Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007 Anthony Braxton, conductor & soprano sax;...
That release consists of selections from "The Complete Braxton 1971": Up Thing = Comp. 6K Quartet Ballad = Comp. 6J Be Bop = Comp. 6I Contrebasse = Comp. 6M ...
As a European resident, I was hoping to avoid the high shipping costs of buying the Mosaic set direct from them. So I enquired whether it was possible to buy...
... The simplest answer is: net profit. If Mosaic were to be distributed through retailers the money that Mosaic would receive would be up to 40% less (the...
Hi, It's strange they don't have an European distributor, particularly since I see Mosaic sets everywhere in my town (Barcelona) all the time, including small...
... This is an old debate, though, and I think the issues are more complex than that. If Mosaic's sets were to be made available through stores and other...
... That may be true but they only have 5000 or 7500 copies to sell and they usually, if not always, sell the whole bunch the way things are. Maybe someone...
I'd like to know where "casual purchasers" spend $100-150 dollars on a box set by a musician they've never heard of. While I might agree that the lack of...
... I didn't say they'd never heard of him. Braxton may be a relatively marginal figure, but it's not as though his name is unknown, particularly in Europe....
... on a box ... I wasn't referring to AB in particular. I was simply pointing out the fact that most of the general record-buying population (beyond jazz ...
While I also wish this is the kind of thing you could stroll down to your local record shop and buy, keep in mind it's likely most retailers would add a huge...
And it's clear nobody else would do this re-issue program. The music hasn't been available on CD at all, ever. There was a Braxton tree for a while on the web...